The art of competition

We are living in a world of money. We live in a world of dreams: trances for a lot of achievements. We share the stick of life with family members, friends, neighbours and co-workers. We see great accomplishments in some of these people. Competition is the art to supremacy-we love supremacy nowadays. Why?

Human beings are like the rainbow: each and every one of us has got his. You can be faint or be bold but all in all we are the makers of the rainbow. We have objectives; we have targets. It is in this life that we tie ourselves to resolutions. And we are supposed to achieve. But the question is how SMART are we? As a person, one has to know herself/himself. It is in knowledge of self that one can gauge the needed endeavour to achieve the objectives at hand.

We may be employees, part of the working circle. We have differing conditions in our contracts of employment. Dichotomies in these conditions lie in the ability to communicate your needs before conclusion of the contract: it does even depend on the levels of output that you are giving (the change in conditions to an exquisite height). It is in the cycle of employment that we will come across politics, it will be said that someone is favoured only because though the ones he works with hold the same qualification with them he earns a better remuneration. If the person is a lay and the boss is a male, it will be said that she earns more because she dates the boss.

Everyone has got his route. You may be tussling with magical people or holding a rope against demi-gods. They have their paths towards achievement of their objectives. Competition is the firth to envy, hate and cries of fouls. Life is not about these things. Life is about taking your own path; leading it too. Life is about chances not competition against the masses. You may be in the ring with someone who has what he has to attain what he wants to attain-someone possessing the right traits for such a field. It is just like when you may be in a box with a candidate who does not have the traits you have and hence he loses and the chance falls to your hands.

We are drowning ourselves into lives that we never wanted to live: lives that we don’t want to live. We have always wanted to beat someone. Our sticks turn unto us and it always whips us. There are tensions and conflicts in offices. Teamwork suffers somewhere because someone who received blows to the point crumpling and falling to the ground is still holding onto his or her being smashed. It is the art of ‘poor competition that has captures alphabets of office etiquette and procedures.  Poor competition has made masses to forge the meaning of an organisation (different people working together towards the achievement of goals at hand). We have chosen to feed ourselves with venom as we fought with those we did not know the kind of weapons they held.

We are disconnected from ourselves as individuals. We have chosen to forget that as much as we are people, we have different spots and these are the differentiating agents. If we could realise that we are having ours that make us out-stand in our own positions, then we will not drown ourselves.

The art of competition: it means searching within to realise whom we are. It defines the ability to know our strengths and weaknesses: surfing to understand why we fell yesterday. The knowledge of our goals: the quantitative and qualitative measure of our achievements. It is in that measure that we’ll come with strategies to reach higher measures- the art of controlling. In trying to beat what others have, we will set objectives that are not specific, measurable, attainable and realistic and well framed time wise.  We can talk of faith in doing certain things. But no! it isn’t faith at times- it is simply being screened by achievements of high achievers.

People have tried to live like others not knowing that they are actually making them their demi-gods. They usually scream to the achievements of others. They say, ‘he has this and that and I don’t have it.’ You simply look to him: he sets the trend and you adhere to it. He is conscientious and you are inept. In lacking that adeptness, it means you are a real follower. But you see you are a bad follower because your fellowship makes you drown. You are desolate. You are full of fissures- much riddled. You look to the skies and you see no rains even though the skies are pregnant. You are nemesis to your own soul-you are suicidal. You are a bad person with a bad attitude and you need to change.

People have compared themselves to others not knowing that they downtrodden themselves and their worth. Millions of people have lost their careers, dreams and all good that could have reached their palms. They couldn’t attain what was meant for them because instead of looking within and beating what they achieved yesterday; they looked across and across there was nothing to bring down. Never in life will any person put a hand on what does not belong to him or her. Overlook people’s possessions and look into your own and then goodness will follow and kiss you.